Song of Solomon 1:12
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
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Spikenard
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John 12:3
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
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נֵרְדְּ
nêrd · nayrd
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
nard, an aromatic
Strong's KJV usage: spikenard.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 1:12Strong's last: Song of Solomon 4:14
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nárdos · nar'dos
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
"nard"
Strong's KJV usage: :--(spike-)nard.
Strong's first: Mark 14:3Strong's last: John 12:3
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While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
H5373
Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
H5373
Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
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spikenard
SPIKENARD, noun spik'nard. [Latin spica nardi.]
1. A plant of the genus Nardus.
2. The oil of balsam procured from the spikenard
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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